Southwest Florida Real Estate News and Market Insight

Blackstone sold another South Florida senior living facility to BH Group and Gold Standard of Care at a discount.  The joint venture paid $12.2 million for Atrium at Boca Raton, roughly $10 million below the previous sale price eight years ago, according to a source familiar with the deal. Gold Stan

Photo courtesy of Farm-City BBQ For 68 years, business and agriculture leaders from the coastal and interior regions of Collier County have gathered to feast on locally grown food at the Farm-City BBQ, sharing a hearty meal on the day before Thanksgiving. The beloved luncheon, which occurs during Na

The Naples Design District will host the Ninth Annual Holiday Stroll, A District in Full Glow, on December 3. The Naples Design District will host the Ninth Annual Holiday Stroll, A District in Full Glow, on December 3, from 5 to 8 p.m. This free, family-friendly evening brings the district to life

An Aventura-based developer is converting a new apartment building in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood into condos, and launching sales of the project, The Real Deal has learned.  Gamla Cedron Group, led by CEO Shaoul Mishal, hired Douglas Elliman to lead sales of the eight-story, 100-unit Central

Michael Comras is planning a major renovation of a Lincoln Road portfolio his namesake firm acquired for $140 million.  Comras declined to confirm the purchase price, which was provided to The Real Deal by a source familiar with the transaction.  Miami Beach-based Comras Company bought 11 storefront

The demand for home loans decreased 5.2% for the week ending Nov. 14, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). That's a dip from the week prior when applications registered a 6% increase. The decline comes on the heels of mortgage interest rates ticking up to 6.24% for the week ending No

Calling all gold diggers, treasure hunters, and anyone with a fondness for historical lore. The opportunity to solve a centuries-old mystery—and uncover a so-called secret treasure—has been brought to the market in Texas in the form of a sprawling 1,266-acre ranch that is said to "conceal buried coi

Homebuyers are increasingly willing to pay a premium for a certain perk—and it's not a swimming pool, three-car garage, or two kitchens. A survey from the National Association of Realtors® showed that Americans are prioritizing walkability in a way they haven't since the pre-Henry Ford era. 79% of r

A 2021 NPR podcast segment painted a picture of the American Dream turned Nightmare: a Louisiana family faced the loss of their five-generation-home that had been owned by the family’s great, great, great grandfather, Jacob Loud, who was formerly enslaved.   That segment from four years ago is still

Climate change is often depicted as a macro disaster: a hurricane swallowing a city, a wildfire sweeping across an entire state, or a storm surge wiping out a skyline of skycrapers in a single blow. But the real story is unfolding at a much smaller scale: street by street, block by block. What’s act

Writer Jack London's brief and very public life has always been the source of much drama and speculation—from his near-mythic Yukon adventures that left him with lifelong health problems to whispers of a romantic triangle involving his second wife. But now, a new layer of intrigue has been added to

Conventional wisdom says the housing market peaks in spring and runs hottest through summer, when warm weather and school breaks draw more buyers in. Homes typically sell faster, spark more bidding wars, and command stronger prices—factors that prompt many homeowners assume that if they didn’t list

Figure Technology Solutions Inc. filed a registration statement on Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a proposed public offering of its Series A Blockchain Common Stock, marking the launch of the first blockchain-native public equity security. Figure‘s offering introduces s

As major builders like D.R. Horton and Tri Pointe Homes trim new home starts to protect margins, Beazer Homes is taking a page out of Lennar’s playbook. Beazer’s Q4 earnings call reveals a builder determined to sustain a robust sales pace, even as it navigates a lower-margin reality driven by a spec

"Selling Sunset's" Mary Bonnet has opened up about her very lucrative career as a real estate agent, influencer, and Netflix star—while revealing how she protected her interests going into her second marriage by putting an "ironclad" prenup in place. The 45-year-old, who has been a member of the "Se

Onity Group — the parent company of PHH Mortgage Corp. and its reverse mortgage arm, Liberty Reverse Mortgage — announced on Tuesday that the company has entered into a “strategic relationship” with Finance of America (FOA) to sell $9.6 billion in mortgage servicing rights (MSRs), among other agreem

Illinois’s housing market reflects the state’s broader economic challenges—steady demand, limited new construction, and affordability that’s slipping for many middle-income buyers. The state earned a C on Realtor.com® State-by-State Housing Report Card, part of the Let America Build campaign that ev

A Nantucket, MA, homeowner at the center of a neighborly war has sold his home—the very home that got him in legal trouble. Jonathan Jacoby is accused of cutting down 16 of his neighbor's trees to create an ocean view for the home he was selling. The listing had highlighted "sweeping views of the At

Strategic paralysis in a buyer-stuck market If land is the lifeblood of homebuilding, then today’s land strategy is a pressure test of a company’s core strength. But how do you act when the market offers no clear signal? After a chaotic four-year stretch of feast, famine, and fiscal policy shockwave

TV personality Whoopi Goldberg is taking a break as a co-host of "The View" this week and will instead be lounging in the sun at her Italian getaway while filming soap opera "Un Posto Al Sole." Goldberg, 69, whose real name is Caryn Elaine Johnson, has been a moderator on the series for 18 seasons,